University of Edinburgh

The overall objective of this online distance learning program is to provide knowledge and an understanding of animal welfare science, with a focus on the international issues arising from animal use in all its forms. Post graduate.

The program is delivered by researchers and teachers from both the Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education (within the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies) and the Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) with a series of guest lecturers from around the world.

This is an On-Demand Coursera course from the University of Edinburgh. You can start the course at any time and work through the course materials at your own pace. It works to improve understanding of animal welfare through the fascinating study of animal behavior, as well as the challenge of accessing the emotions of animals.

Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona

The Master in Animal Law and Society is a specialization program, which aims to train experts in work related with animals from a comparative legal perspective, taking into account the needs of a global society.

Cambridge E-Learning Institute (CEI)

The Online Certificate in Animal Welfare provides the same information as that in the university courses, but enables more study flexibility. You can complete the several modules at your own pace, when it suits you, from your own home.

Animal Welfare Indicators Project (AWIN)

The European funded AWIN project has developed a web based portal for animal welfare education resources. These include a repository of animal welfare courses and training available worldwide and a collection of free to use downloadable learning materials, on many animal welfare topics.

Federation of Veterinarians of Europe

Humane Society Academy

A variety of development opportunities for professionals, volunteers, and advocates in the field of animal protection. Online offerings include self-paced and instructor-led courses, certificate programs, and webinars.

Scholarships are available for students seeking certification in animal sheltering or humane education.

Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers (HEART) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), with support from ASPCA

A humane education resource guide intended for not only educators, but also concerned citizens who do not have a formal background in teaching. The guide consists of a total of 40 lessons and activities.

The Humane Society of the United States

Free downloadable lesson plans, listed in order by grade level, designed to teach age-appropriate, standards-based academic skills and major character concepts - kindness, citizenship, fairness, respect, responsibility, and integrity - while reinforcing those ideas as they apply to our treatment of animals.

Animal Welfare Education

International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)

A library of free education resources on a wide variety of animal welfare and conservation themes, which are aligned with core curricula for both primary and secondary children. Materials, which focus on both individual species and cross-cutting issues, include films, teaching guides, lessons, student magazines, worksheets, arts and crafts, and interactive activities. In addition to the UK library, these resources are available in more than a dozen languages and dialects for use in schools worldwide.

Animal Welfare Training

OIE

The OIE improved animal welfare program has been developed as a capacity building program to assist recipient countries implement OIE animal welfare standards on land transport and slaughter. To date the training program has been applied for transport and slaughter of cattle, sheep and pigs. The training program is designed as a training of trainers program.

European Commission

Better Training for Safer Food is a Commission training initiative covering food and feed law, animal health and welfare and plant health. Eligible participants are Public Veterinary Officers belonging to the National Competent Authorities of EU Member States, EFTA, Candidates and Third Countries involved in the official controls on Animal Welfare aspects and the development of best practices to improve the application of European norms and/or international standards on this issue. See also: http://www.sancotraining.izs.it/joomla/.

Animal Welfare Training

International animal welfare training, education and consultancy for the meat industry. Includes Animal/Poultry Welfare Officer courses and Training Trainer programs. Constant course creation and development using the latest hardware and software. AWT has a vast ( probably unique ) media library of high quality images as well as digital SD/HD movie data as a consequence of constant international training and consultancy which constitutes the media core of many training courses, programs and presentations.

Humane Slaughter Association (HSA)

Animals Angels

Animals Angels conducts seminars on animal transport for police and border guards. It also distributes handbooks which offer the police practical advice on checking lorries on the road.

IRTA

IRTA is a research institute of the Government of Catalonia ascribed to the Department of Agriculture. The Animal Welfare sub program focuses on the behavior and welfare of cattle, pigs and sheep on farms, during transport and in the slaughter process. The breadth of the topic of animal welfare allows it to be included in different research lines, such as meat and carcass quality, nutrition, genetics, and species such as rabbits, ruminants, poultry and aquaculture. Their lines of work are: animal welfare during slaughter; animal welfare during transport; evaluation of animal welfare on farms and at the abattoir and alternatives to painful practices.

Capacity Building

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

This report was compiled as the result of an Expert Meeting in 2008. The report covers all animals used in food production, including draft animals. The resource is intended to assist in the integration of animal welfare into the livestock sector, especially in developing regions. The report covers such aspects as: culturally appropriate approaches, fostering application of animal welfare science and dissemination of scientific infofmation, standards and legislation, capacity building for improving animal welfare and strategies for implementing capacity building.

Resources

European Union

The European Animal Welfare Platform (EAWP) aims at improving farm animal welfare throughout the food chain. It does so by providing a discussion platform where stakeholders like farmers, processors, retailers, academics and a variety of NGOs can meet. It will define and disseminate best practices for safeguarding and improving animal welfare in the food supply chain.

Humane Slaughter Association (HSA)

It also provides a wide selection of resources including a collection of material for personnel training in transport, marketing and slaughter of animals (which includes printed publications, DVDs and online guides).